Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/03
Yup, I have been in the Ring ecosystem since way before Amazon took them over, and it is kind of hard to part from the useful cameras, so here is for my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Latest Products/Feature Request Board topics – Ring Community
Via two suggestions I did:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/02
While moving from ancient hardware to more modern hardware, somehow Visual Studio Code had updated itself to a version that didn’t support the underlying operating system any more. Bummer!
Normally I would get the list of extensions through this command (which is listed in many places, like in my blog post How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? (via: Stack Overflow), but also for instance answered in the below question by [WaybackSave/Archive] Benny Ng):
code --list-extensions
That obviously would not work, but thanks to [Wayback/Archive] How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Andrew and [Wayback/Archive] MarkP) I now could do this:
ls -alh ~/.vscode/extensions
(That directory obviously is also in various forms of official documentation like in the the Your Extensions Folder section of [Wayback/Archive] Publishing Extensions | Visual Studio Code Extension API.
A comment to the above question pointed me to an interesting way to automate extension installs on various machines: pack the installed extension list into its own .vsix file:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/02
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive.is] Converting Phono Inputs to Line-Level
It shows for some receiver models how to have the Phono input signals bypass the preamplifier (preamp) so they effectively become Line level inputs and there is no need for an extra devices that undoes RIAA equalisation.
If that fails, then you need something like the [Wayback/Archive.is] Line level to phono input converter diagram:
Or get you a [Wayback/Archive.is] iRIAA2 – Inverse RIAA Filter – Hagerman Audio Labs
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/01
I wrote a two earlier blog posts around puns in programming book indices before:
In the last one, I promised to list more occurrences which I now finally had time for to do.
But let me first elaborate more on the observation that modern computer books (like for instance on C# and Delphi beyond version 1) lack these kinds of index pun.
On the Delphi side, the index entry joke for recursion got removed no later than Delphi 3 (I am still looking for a Delphi 2 version of the Object Pascal Language Guide, see further below) even before the book being fully redone electronically and the index pages generation being automated in
I think I even understand why that is: the process of creating of indices. By the start of this century, more and more indices were automatically being generated and for the last 2 decades or so, all of them are. Back in the days however, indices were mostly done by hand. Nowadays, with everything automated, it is actually pretty tricky in most environments to add such an “infinite loop” index entry like in the Turbo Pascal book, as it would require two things at once:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/01
For my link archive as it will help me when ready to step up my Python skills: [Wayback/Archive] Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “i love this kind of researchy blog post (“i read a bunch of python libraries, here’s what i learned!”)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/31
A small introduction is the Pentium FDIV bug – Wikipedia article which already has some of the highlights..
Ken Shirriff however went all the way in, and used a microscope to focus in on to the actual cause.
He wrote two Mastodon threads on it watching (most recent first, with a link to his blog post) making a good year’s end read:
In 1994, a math professor discovered that Intel’s Pentium chip sometimes gave the wrong answer when dividing. Fixing this “FDIV” bug cost Intel $475 million. I analyzed the Pentium chip and found the bug. 1/N
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[Wayback/Archive] Intel’s $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
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In 1994, a math professor discovered that Intel’s Pentium chip sometimes gave the wrong answer when dividing. Fixing this “FDIV” bug cost Intel $475 million. I analyzed the Pentium chip and found the bug. 1/N
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And there is of course this, that predated his microscope work [Wayback/Archive] Ken Shirriff: “I recently saw an amazing Navajo rug…” – OldBytes Space – Mastodon Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/31
A while ago, browser tabs were overflowing again so I first mad the list of links with quotes below, then discovered there is a template for many browser tabs open at [Wayback/Archive] To many browser tabs open Meme Generator – Imgflip
One of the reasons is that the WordPress “Press This” bookmarklet is very slow and also flaky at escaping HTML (for instance the below html – Why shouldn’t &apos; be used to escape single quotes? – Stack Overflow sometimes becomes html – Why shouldn’t <code>'</code> be used to escape single quotes? – Stack Overflow in [Wayback/Archive] Press This – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org especially when running it from Archive Today archived pages).
So here we go: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/30
Edit 20250213: let op! Op MacOS met Preview: vul niet het formulier als formulier in, maar gebruik text-annotations voor de tekstvelden. Want anders ben je met printen 80% van je informatie kwijt
Edit 20250830: vul bij “Uw huidige adres” het nieuwe adres in (de betekenis van “Uw huidige adres” is bij invullen voor het verhuizen anders dan na het verhuizen; de belastingdienst gaat er vanuit dat het na het verhuizen wordt ingevuld)
Zie screenshots onderaan de blogpost afkomstig van [WaybackSave/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “Screenshots: – links met … van @Belastingdienst ingevuld om een postadres door te geven – rechts wat er uit de printer komt (of print naar PDF) MacOS. Laatste updates. Eerste screenshot: pagina 1 Tweede screenshot: pagina 2 #WhyCantWeHaveNiceThings “
Screenshots:
– links met https://download.belastingdienst.nl/belastingdienst/docs/postadres_doorgeven_al0791z3fol.pdf van @Belastingdienst ingevuld om een postadres door te geven
– rechts wat er uit de printer komt (of print naar PDF)MacOS. Laatste updates.
Eerste screenshot: pagina 1
Tweede screenshot: pagina 2#WhyCantWeHaveNiceThings
[Wayback/Archive] Postadres doorgeven
[Wayback/Archive] download.belastingdienst.nl/belastingdienst/docs/postadres_doorgeven_al0791z3fol.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]
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U kunt dit formulier alleen gebruiken als u in Nederland woont of als uw onderneming, stichting of vereniging in Nederland is gevestigd.U kunt het formulier gebruiken in de volgende situaties:
- U wilt onze post ontvangen op een ander adres dan uw woonadres of vestigingsadres.
- U wilt voor onze post een ander postadres doorgeven.
- U wilt uw postadres weer veranderen naar uw woonadres of vestigingsadres.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/30
Need to try this later: [WayBack] Download Free Windows Backup Software
Free download AOMEI backup software to back up system, restore disk for disaster recovery, clone disk partition in Windows PC and laptop easily and quickly.
Download link at time of writing was [WayBack] AOMEIBackupperStd.exe.
Via: [WayBack] Free Disk Imaging Software; 10 Tools You Can Image Your Hard Drive For Free | Proven Data
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/27
De enige Radio 10 live video stream die ik kon vinden was [Wayback/Archive] Radio 10 Webcam – Radio 10 Live beeld – MyOnlineRadio.
Zijn er meer?
De reden was dat ik Matijn ook weer eens live wilde zien na zijn vertrek bij Radio 2 (alleen luisteren is soms ook wat saai).
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 